Lev Uskin: Father of Three Permania
Leo Uskin In the spring of 1653, a special circular began to enter all the corners of the Moscow state, published by a new one, set less than a year before, the patriarch and brought most of the clergy into a fair confusion. It was, which then became sadly famous, the so -called "memory" of Patriarch Nikon. The document, in an ultimatical form prescribing to the believers, under the threat of cruel punishment, several tangible changes in rituals.